Eastgate Regional ITS Architecture Update

Interfaces:

Basic Information Broadcast

• The center shall disseminate traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
• The center shall disseminate maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
• The center shall disseminate transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information to travelers.
• The center shall disseminate parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees.
• The center shall disseminate toll fee information to travelers.
• The center shall disseminate weather information to travelers.
• The center shall disseminate event information to travelers.
• The center shall disseminate air quality information to travelers.
• The center shall provide the capability to support requests from the media for traffic and incident data.
• The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of broadcast traveler information.

Interactive Infrastructure Information

• The center shall disseminate customized traffic and highway condition information to travelers, including incident information, detours and road closures, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes upon request.
• The center shall disseminate customized maintenance and construction information to travelers, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities upon request.
• The center shall disseminate customized transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information to travelers upon request.
• The center shall disseminate customized parking information to travelers, including location, availability, and fees upon request.
• The center shall disseminate customized toll fee information to travelers upon request.
• The center shall disseminate customized weather information to travelers upon request.
• The center shall disseminate customized multimodal transportation service information (for example, from ferry and airline operators), including transfer points and other information, to travelers upon request.
• The center shall disseminate customized event information to travelers upon request.
• The center shall disseminate customized air quality information to travelers upon request.
• The center shall provide all traveler information based on the traveler's current location or a specific location identified by the traveler, and filter or customize the provided information accordingly.
• The center shall accept traveler profiles for determining the type of personalized data to send to the traveler.
• The center shall manage payment for services, such as tolls, transit fares, parking lot charges, map updates, and advanced payment for tolls, and provide transaction success or failure details.
• The center shall support requests for traveler information and advanced payment for traveler services from commercial fleet operators.
• The center shall provide the capability to exchange information with another traveler information service provider current or predicted data for road links that are outside the area served by the local supplier.
• The center shall manage updates of digitized map data and provide updates to traveler interface systems upon request.
• The center shall provide the capability to support requests from the media for traffic and incident data.
• The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to control the type and update frequency of traveler information.

MCM Environmental Information Processing

• The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.
• The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information using a combination of weather service provider information (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services) and local environmental sensor data.
• The center shall use the various data inputs of environmental sensors and road weather data to develop a view of current and predicted road weather and road conditions.
• The center shall disseminate current and forecasted road weather and road condition information to weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services) as well as other agencies including traffic, emergency, and transit management, traveler information providers, rail operations centers, media, and other maintenance management centers.
• The center shall provide value-added sector specific meteorological services with information on basic road facility and treatment information that supports forecasts for road conditions.

MCM Environmental Information Collection

• The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure road surface temperature, moisture, icing, salinity, and other measures.
• The center shall remotely control environmental sensors that measure weather conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
• The center shall remotely control environmental sensors on-board maintenance and construction vehicles that measure road and weather conditions including air and surface temperatures, wind speed, humidity, precipitation, visibility and other measures.
• The center shall collect environmental probe data (air temperature, exterior light status, wiper status, traction control status, etc.) from short range communications equipment that communicates with appropriately equipped probe vehicles.
• The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information using a combination of weather service provider information (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services), data from traffic and traveler information providers, and environmental data collected from sensors deployed on and about the roadway as well as the fleet of maintenance and construction vehicles and the broader population of vehicle probes.
• The center shall provide weather and road condition information to weather service providers and center personnel.
• The center shall respond to control data from center personnel regarding environmental sensor control and weather data collection and processing.
• The center shall collect operational status for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment.
• The center shall collect fault data for the roadside and vehicle-based environmental sensor equipment for repair.

ISP Traveler Data Collection

• The center shall collect, process, and store traffic and highway condition information, including incident information, detours and road closures, event information, recommended routes, and current speeds on specific routes.
• The center shall collect, process, and store maintenance and construction information, including scheduled maintenance and construction work activities and work zone activities.
• The center shall collect, process, and store transit routes and schedules, transit transfer options, transit fares, and real-time schedule adherence information.
• The center shall collect, process, and store parking information, including location, availability, and fees.
• The center shall collect, process, and store toll fee information.
• The center shall collect, process, and store current and forecast road conditions and surface weather conditions.
• The center shall collect, process, and store event information.
• The center shall collect, process, and store air quality information.
• The center shall collect, process, and store border crossing information.

ISP VII Traveler Information Distribution

• The center shall select traveler information for distribution including traffic and road conditions, incident information, maintenance and construction information, event information, transit information, parking information, and weather information.
• The center shall distribute location relevant traveler information to short range communications equipment at the roadside.
• The center shall provide the capability for a system operator to monitor VII system operation and control the type and update frequency of traveler information that is distributed.
• The center shall monitor the operational status of the VII roadside equipment.
• The center shall collect fault data from the roadside equipment and send to the maintenance center for repair.
• The center shall monitor maintenance status of the roadside equipment.